Katherine G. Langley

Katherine Gudger Langley (* February 14, 1888 in Marshall, Madison County, North Carolina; † August 15, 1948 in Pikeville, Kentucky) was an American politician. Between 1927 and 1931, she represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Katherine Gudger, so her maiden name, was a daughter of James M. Gudger (1855-1920), who represented 1903-1915 twice the state of North Carolina in Congress. She was also the wife of Congressman John W. Langley of Kentucky. She attended the public schools of their home and then the Woman 's College, Richmond ( Virginia). She has also studied at Emerson College of Oratory in Boston. Before she moved to Pikeville in 1905, she taught for some time in Bristol (Tennessee).

Katherine Langley was a member of the Republican Party. During the First World War, she headed the Red Cross in Pike County. Between 1920 and 1922 she was deputy party chairman in Kentucky. In 1920 she became the first chairman of the Republican Women's Association at the state level. In June 1924 she participated as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in part in Cleveland, was nominated to the President Calvin Coolidge for re-election.

In the congressional elections of 1926, she became the first woman from Kentucky in the tenth constituency of their state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they became the successor of Andrew Jackson Kirk on March 4, 1927. So she took the same mandate that her husband had exerted 1907-1926. After a re-election in 1928, she was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1931 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the Great Depression. In the elections of 1930, it was subject to Democrat Andrew J. May

Between 1939 and 1942 Katherine Langley was railroad commissioner in the third district of Kentucky. She died on August 15, 1948.